P5 4 Earth’s Oven

Abstract

In this paper, we determine the initial velocity that a whole chicken refrigerated to 5 °C would
require if it were dropped through the Earth as an unconventional cooking method. When dropped
with zero initial velocity the chicken reaches 821 °C, causing it to burn. To prevent overcooking,
the chicken is found to need an initial velocity of 50 kms−1 raising the internal temperature of the
chicken to 91 °C, an ideal temperature for cooking